"When I'm out there in the yard, I can see bikers, joggers, people pushing baby strollers, and I wave to all of them and say hi," he said. "But they're all going down the road, and it's even more dangerous now than it was before."

Barisano, along with a handful of other homeowners on Golden Cove Road and its sidestreets, is concerned that an influx of tractor-trailer traffic down his street is a dangerous mix with the increased pedestrian activity.

"It's a good road, it's a new road, but it's not built for 18-wheel traffic," Barisano said of the residential street that connects routes 129 and 110.

Barisano and a few others are working with town and state officials in an attempt to reduce the number of trucks using their street as a cut-through between the major roads after the recent removal of posted signs banning large trailers.

Barisano's neighbor, Don Landers, said the signs were taken down sometime last spring. The truck prohibition was removed when the state Department of Transportation found the signs hadn't been properly authorized.

"I couldn't believe the volume of trucks," said Landers, who lives on Carter Drive. "That's actually how I noticed it. I saw the trucks and then I saw the signs were gone."

Landers said his biggest worry is that the big trailers drive too fast to stop for kids who may be in the road walking to or from the nearby Center School.

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"You really take your life in your hands crossing there," he said. "I hated walking my kids to school. It was nerve-wracking."

The Police Department is conducting a traffic study on the road, with cables in front of Barisano's house measuring the flow of vehicles down the road.

Barisano and Landers say they think the study will provide proof of enough heavy truck use to justify new signs announcing some sort of truck restriction.

In an effort to advance this, Landers reached out to state Rep. Cory Atkins, bringing the lawmaker out to the neighborhood in September to observe the traffic pattern and talk with residents.

Atkins, a Concord Democrat whose district includes part of Chelmsford, said she and the group are waiting on the findings of the town's traffic study. After that, she hopes to arrange a meeting with the Department of Transportation, bringing officials to the area so they can see the traffic situation firsthand.

Ultimately, Atkins wants to see new truck restrictions put in place on Golden Cove Road.

"If you look at a map, there's an easy access for the trucks to go to Route 3," she said. "We're not putting the trucks at a great disadvantage here. It's about public safety."

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